TexMessage: Jeb Hensarling says President Obama wouldn’t ‘know a jobs bill if he tripped over it’

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Rep. Jeb Hensarling said that President Obama wouldn’t “know a jobs bill if he tripped over it.”

The Republican from Dallas, who serves as Chair of the House Republican Conference, was interview on Fox News about the Democrat-Republican blame-game, and he blames Obama saying that “the President’s policies have failed.”

“House Republicans have passed over 30 different jobs bills and, with one or two exceptions, he’s ignored them all,” said Hensarling.

He said that the strife will continue to increase as a result of Obama’s presidential campaign.

“This is a president who, because he can’t run on his record on jobs and the economy, frankly, usually tries to engage in the politics of division and envy.”

“I don’t think there is a president in living memory who has less credibility on the topic of jobs and the economy than Barack Obama,” said Hensarling. “He told the American people if we passed his stimulous plan, unemployment would never go beyond eight percent, and in fact, it would be six percent now. And as you well know we’ve had 38 straight months of eight percent plus unemployment, the worst record since the Great Depression.”

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